Drewseph42

I honestly can’t see how Correa is the one who wanted to pull out of this somehow because of the competitive situation of the Giants. Other than Carlos Rodon not re-signing with them, what changed between when he agreed to terms and late last night? It’s not like the Giants medical staff wouldn’t have had a chance to review his prior medical records before putting out their ultimate offer. The Giants got cold feet and wanted to change those previously agreed upon terms. It’s a weird situation, but I think it was ownership not wanting to pay Correa as much because of whatever came out of the physical and tried to low ball Correa/Boras. Something that I’d be curious about is if Boras called up the Twins (and any other teams that had been serious suitors) and gave them one last chance. So help me, if we didn’t get him in the end because Falvey/Levine had Do Not Disturb turned on….

All these leagues are paying attention to globalizing their brands. I've lived in Europe a couple times, and the first time (2006), I had an mlb.tv subscription, and could only listen to the radio broadcasts live (could only watch after the game had aired). Living there again last year, you could watch live games. The NFL also introduced NFL Gamepass which was the same thing as NFL Sunday Ticket for free if watched on a computer. Trying to break into immerging markets is pretty enticing when you're dealing with that much money...

I think the quickest resolution possibility is going to be from the world of Apple TVs, Amazon's FireTV, and other technology expanding. The MLB getting direct money from customers buying the MLB.tv subscriptions is a plus for them. Additionally, the majority of people who would get such a subscription, aren't going to be dropping their cable subscriptions, so any potential argument from the RSN's can be minimized. The NFL has made it work with NFL Sunday Ticket and online subscriptions with blackout rules. Vikings games are available when a Packer game is on the same network, and I don't see why there would be a problem. Plus...the NFL's agreement with DirecTV is up after the 2014-2015, and that's the prize cow in all of this. The NFL is in the driver's seat when it comes to have to power of blackout changes. If someone like Apple or Amazon steps up, that could be game changer. Charter is the primary cable provider (we use DirecTV), and they actually carry BOTH FSN-North our of the Twin Cities and Wisconsin (DirecTV has both in HD unlike Charter), so both Twins and Brewers fans are covered here. Iowa was just a mess. Nothing was worse IMO than having to listen to Hawk and Stone call the handful of Twins' games when they were play the White Sox. I get that Mediacom doesn't want to have to pay for all of the FSNs and CSNs, but make it available in some premium sports package. It's teams that have lower TV contracts that should be clamoring for a change. The Twins obviously aren't going to get a Dodger or Angels type TV deal, but added advertising revenues from FSN being able to branch out into Iowa and Wisconsin would provide the Twins with great revenue available in future deals. States with weird blackout overlaps (see: Iowa, and the Mid-Atlantic states) should be joining in this debate.

I don't think anyone can deny the small sample size fact. It's hard to say that we really got to see what Burroughs had left in the tank. I get that he didn't impress anyone offensively during the regular season. The thing with Luke Hughes is we knew what we had in him since he was here his whole career, and we had exposure to him. Burroughs was out of baseball for a while, and we didn't have anyone else internally to legitimately press Valencia playing time at third. An extra week and a half of him actually getting to play more often wouldn't have been the end of the world for a team that only won 6 games the first month of the season. As has been pointed out, it's a decision that we didn't need to make right away had the Twins just place Morneau on the DL.